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Israel: preventing Iran from reaching nuclear weapons first priority

Israel: preventing Iran from reaching nuclear weapons first priority
posted onMay 2, 2023
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The need to stop Iran's nuclear armament will continue to be Israel's top priority, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said speaking at the Knesset plenum attended by US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

"We properly see the threat posed by the fanatical regime in Iran, which threatens not only Israel but also the United States and the entire free world," the PM noted.

He asserted that Israel would not allow Iran to establish itself militarily along its borders and would do everything to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Meanwhile, Israeli Foreign Minister, Eli Cohen, met the EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, in Brussels.

Cohen aimed to ensure that the EU would take a tougher stance on Iran's repeated violations of its nuclear commitments before June's meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors.

Cohen is expected to ask Borrell to declare the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization, according to the Israeli "i24 News" channel.